The Center Chronicle - Care Connection for Aging Services

Higginsville Senior Center
Volume 7, Issue 1
The Center Chronicle
August, 2015
Bikers 4 Boomers—2015
I n s i d e t h i s i s s u e : It’s nearly that time of year again! Our
County, Warrensburg and the KC Metro
4th annual Bikers 4 Boomers poker run is
area.
just
a
couple
of
weeks
away
on
Saturday,
Center Tidbits 2
But aside from being fun, this is serious
August 15.
fundraising. We host fundraisers like this,
A poker run is an organized event where and many others at our centers, to help
Birthdays
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participants, usually using motorcycles,
support the services that we bring to each
ODNT—Learn
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snowmobiles, boats, or horses, must visit
and every one of you.
something new
five to seven checkpoints, drawing a
Every Month
playing card at each one. The object is to We hope that you can come out to support
our event and to show the bikers how much
have the best poker hand at the end of
Important
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we appreciate their support of our centers.
the run. The event has a time limit,
Dates
however the participants are not timed— We draw riders from all over the state so
Coordinator’s 4
winning is purely a matter of chance. No it’s nice for them to see not only what, but
Corner
who benefits from the event.
poker playing skills necessary! (From
Stay Fit ...for 5
Wikipedia)
The bikers will start in
Life!
Some fun facts about our
poker run:
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Lafayette
County
Health
Department
(4th Wednesday)
 August 26
Psoriasis/Skin
Conditions
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 September TBD
FLU CLINICS!
 October 28
Fire Safety
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2015 is our 4th year.
Except for our 1st year
we have had a net
profit of over $4,000
meeting our goal of
$1,000 for each center.
We attract usually about 100
participants.
We have over 80 volunteers
throughout the county.
We have a website
www.bikers4boomers.com and a
Facebook page and a YouTube video!
We spend very little (less than $500)
and have everything donated.
Winners—high hand $100 and low
hand $75
Financial sponsors (2015 we have
$2,550 as of 7/13)
Prizes and raffle items are all
donated from merchants in Lafayette
Higginsville with biscuits and
gravy as early at 7:30
(you’re welcome to join us for
breakfast!) and start leaving
at 9a.m. They will ride to
Concordia, then Odessa,
Lexington and finally back to
Higginsville’s Fairground
Park. They’ll start arriving
back there around 12:30 or 1:00 and have
lunch, check to see if they won door prizes
and see who wins the raffle packages.
We’ll have a DJ playing some kickin’ music
… just a whole lot of summertime fun!
Come join us at the park. There will be
plenty of food available ($5 if you’re not
doing the run) and lots of awesome bikes to
see.
And if you’re interested, we can use
volunteers at each center to help the riders
as they stop to draw a card … it’s a great
time so get your motor runnin’ and join us for
Bikers 4 Boomers 2015!
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Center Tidbits. .
We will be dancing
in August! Because
of scheduling
conflicts, we won’t be
dancing in August!
Stay tuned for info
on your next chance
to kick your heels up!
Grab your bones and let’s play
some Chickenfoot! If you know what
we’re saying, join us on Tuesday,
August 4th at 12:30 for the first in
what we hope is a long series of
domino games! We used to play
every single day after lunch—let’s do
that again! See you on Tuesday,
August 4th!
recognizes contributions senior
citizens make in communities across
the United States. Join us on
Friday, August 21 to help us
celebrate you & your contributions
with ice cream and cake!
Southern Comfort Sunday!
Bring in your oldest tools and share
with us on Thursday, August 20th!
Bring a story along with those tools—
the funnier the better!
National Senior Citizens Day—2015
National Senior Citizens Day
Thanks to everyone
who came out on
Sunday, July 12 for
our very first ever
fried chicken lunch. It
was a great success … watch for
more in the future!
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Birthday Celebrations!
Here are a few common traits of people born in August —enjoy!
The month of August is governed by the all-powerful Sun
and by the magnanimous sign of Leo.
You are attracted to professions involving the arts, public
life, medicine, research, management, and any endeavors
that could offer you a chance to shine.
You are fixed and strongly motivated by the will to succeed.
Women born in August are stunning, intellectual, magnetic, and attract
others with their enthusiastic solar power. Women born in August are
protective and dedicated mothers.
If your birthday is in August, we’d love to have you join us for lunch on
Wednesday, August 12! See you then. And a very Happy Birthday to
the folks listed on the right!
Lorene
Rose
Frankie
Celeste
Elverna
Fred
Roger
Willie
Edith
Roger
Celia
Tom
Sadie
Hayes
Shirley
Carol
Nadine
Delaine
Carroll
Correll
Crawford
Culver
Demasters
Eberle
Erdman
Fields
Grace
Hink
Knipmeyer
Lattimore
Miller
Niemeier
Nowack
Rodriguez
Stuerke
Upton
10-Aug
19-Aug
25-Aug
20-Aug
22-Aug
2-Aug
8-Aug
1-Aug
2-Aug
3-Aug
20-Aug
20-Aug
23-Aug
29-Aug
22-Aug
29-Aug
14-Aug
21-Aug
Learn Something New Every Month!
In the decade from the late 1880s, dozens of designs and machines
emerged, particularly in Germany and England, and soon spread to
America. In 1894, Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first series
production motorcycle, and the first to be called a motorcycle(German: Motorrad). The first
instance of the term "motor cycle" also appears in English the same year in materials
promoting machines developed by E.J. Pennington, although Pennington's motorcycles never progress past the
prototype stage.
Excelsior Motor Company, originally a bicycle manufacturing company based in Coventry, England, began
production of their first motorcycle model in 1896, available for purchase by the public. The first production
motorcycle in the US was the Orient-Aster, built by Charles Metz in 1898 at his factory in Waltham, Massachusetts.
At the turn of the century the first major mass-production firms were set up. In 1901 English quadricycle and bicycle
maker Royal Enfield introduced its first motorcycle, with a 239 cc engine mounted in the front and driving the rear
wheel through a belt. In 1898, English bicycle maker Triumph decided to extend its focus to include motorcycles,
and by 1902, the company had produced its first motorcycle—a bicycle fitted with a Belgian-built engine.
In 1901, the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company, which had been founded by two former bicycle racers,
designed the so-called "diamond framed" Indian Single, whose engine was built by the
Aurora Firm in Illinois per Indian's specifications. The
Single was made available in the deep blue. The
OATS—Local Contact
Sean McConnell 660-641-1021 American company Harley-Davidson started producing
motorcycles in 1903.
To schedule in-town rides between the hours of
A little history of the motorcycle!
10 AM and 1:30 PM, Monday thru Friday, call the
Senior Center 24 hours in advance.
Senior Center Hours 7:00 AM—2:00 PM
Lunch Serving Hours 11:00 AM—12:30 PM
ALL out of town rides call 800-276-6287.
Important Dates in July
We are on the web!
www.goaging.org
Higginsville Senior Center
21st & Walnut
Higginsville, MO 64037
Phone: (660) 584-7040
Phone: (660) 584-5322
FAX: (660) 584-3233
eMail: higginsville@goaging.org
School starts on August 18,
watch for kids and school
L i f e t i m e
d i g n i t y ,
Monday, August 3rd Watermelon Day
Tuesday, August 4th Let’s Play Dominos!
Thursday, August 6th Free Blood Pressure Check
Monday, August 10th Center Service Board
Meeting
Tuesday, August 11th Bring your children/
grandchildren day!
Tuesday, August 11th Let’s Play Dominos!
Wednesday, August 12th Fried Chicken &
Birthday Day!
Saturday, August 15th Bikers 4 Boomers!
Tuesday, August 18th Let’s Play Dominos!
Wednesday, August 19th I-70 Community
Hospital Accu Check /Blood Pressure Check
Thursday, August 20th Show & Tell—Old Tools!
Friday, August 21st Senior Citizens Day!
Monday, August 24th Community Council
Meeting
Tuesday, August 25th Let’s Play Dominos!
Wednesday, August 26th Lafayette County
Health Department
Don’t forget we knit and crochet Mondays @ 9:30
and we play cards and/or dominos at 1:00 every
day.
O p p o r t u n i t y ,
Did you know that our Center is a
Care Connection Senior Center?
Care Connection for Aging
Services is a not-for-profit
organization designated by the
Missouri Department of Health
and Senior Services to: assess the
needs of older adults in the 13county area we serve; develop
necessary public and private
resources to meet their needs;
and deliver to our constituents a
comprehensive and coordinated
system of services, information,
and access to needed services.
Our mission is to provide
resources and services that
empower people to create
healthy aging experiences. We
strive to realize this mission on a
daily basis through the 23 Local
Centers served by dedicated
staff and volunteers.
Visit the Care Connection website
at goaging.org or talk to Susan
for more information on the
services available.
I n d e p e n d e n c e
Coordinator’s Corner
Well here we go again with more rain and the heat! I know I washers, and clean up help. We try to help as much as
am praying that the weather will settle down and we can
we can but some days we can’t do it all.
enjoy what is left of summer.
So if you or someone you know wants to volunteer
For months now in my column I have been writing about
please come see me in the office, we would be so
funny things that have happened but this month I want to
grateful for the help. I realize that everyone has a
talk about something that is more important and dear to me, busy life and have places they need to be but an hour
our senior center.
or two a day is all that we need. So let’s work
together to keep our center running smoothly and take
Our center is not only a place to come and get a great meal pride in our beautiful center.
and to exercise but a place where one can come and be
around others and enjoy others company. We are here to
Thanks for listening and God Bless.
make sure those who are homebound have a meal every
day and don’t go hungry. Our purpose is to help our senior
citizens enjoy life and to live a healthier one.
I have been told by so many people what a nice center we
have and how much they have enjoyed being here. And it is
true we do have a wonderful center, and I would like to see
it stay that way but the staff and I can’t do it alone.
We are in serious need of volunteers to help us out, we need
receptionist to work the front desk, kitchen help, dish
Susan
Stay fit... for life.
Good Food, Regular Activity, Fun
& Learning
The way you live can change how you age!
Can Loneliness Shorten a Life?
A New research study suggests social
isolation may harm physical health, and
even hasten death.
The findings are based on a review of
data from dozens of studies involving
more than 3 million people. The studies
were completed between 1980 and 2014,
all of which explored how loneliness and
social isolation affects longevity.
The researchers found a strong
association between loneliness and the
risk for dying sooner rather than later.
Study participants averaged 66 years of
age, and about a third struggled with
some type of chronic illness.
"People don't commonly think of social
factors when they think of health. We
think of things like exercise, blood
pressure and taking cholesterol
medication. But it turns out that social
isolation is actually more predictive of
death than any of those three things."
says Timothy B. Smith, a researcher and
professor of psychology at Brigham
Young University in Provo, Utah.
"Isolation and loneliness is about the
perception of being lonely, not the act of
being alone," said Lisa Jaremka,
assistant professor of psychological and
brain sciences at the University of
Delaware in Newark.
August 2015
"There are people who are regularly in
contact with other people who are really
lonely, and there are also people who
don't physically see other people very
often, but don't feel lonely at all,"
Jaremka said.
What is it about loneliness that could
shorten lives?
Smith said. "It turns out that we are
literally wired to be social beings, and
our immune system and our stress
response just function better when we
are in a collective. It turns out that we are
basically healthier when we are social."
Jaremka agreed. "People have a very
basic and fundamental need to feel
connected to and cared for by other
people," she said. "Lonely people are
lacking in this area. They aren't fulfilling
this basic need, and thus, negative
things happen as a result."
Her advice: "Reach out to any existing
friends or family members and try to
deepen those relationships, even if it
feels a little uncomfortable or awkward.”
Another idea is to join in where others
are gathered. There are many
opportunities to do that here at the
senior center. Come and have lunch, join
a fitness class or volunteer.
It may feel uncomfortable to come into
the unknown. But keep coming and
before long you will experience a sense
of community. This is your center, your
class, your friends, you belong here ! It’s
a great feeling!
Source: Web MD
Source: Web MD
The following exercise strengthens the
muscle in the shoulders and upper
back. It will also increase flexibility.
FITNESS CLASSES…around the county
Functional Fitness :
HIGGINSVILLE
8 am M --- W ---F
Silver Sneakers :
HIGGINSVILLE
10 am Mon & Thurs.
Stay Strong :
HIGGINSVILLE
11 am M –W - F
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Silver Sneakers :
ODESSA
How:
10:15 Tues & Fri
Line Dancing:
ODESSA
9 am Friday
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1. Start by sitting in a straight
back chair. Feet flat on the
floor. (Make sure you breathe
throughout the exercise.)
Silver Sneakers:
LEXINGTON
Peppi :
9 am Thurs
10 am
M—W---F
Lexington
2. Arms should be at your sides
with back of hands facing
forward.
3. Raise arms up in the air as if you
are under arrest. Palms facing
forward squeeze shoulder
blades together.
4. As you continue to squeeze
shoulder blades together slowly
bring arms out to shoulder
height. Palms are facing down.
5. Continue to squeeze shoulder
blades together and slowly bring
arms back down to sides.
6. Relax shoulders.
7. Aim for 10 reps, doing more or
less depending on your fitness
level.
I thought you said “Extra Fries”
The Zen of Sarcasm
A journey of a thousand miles begins - with a
flat tire.
It’s always darkest before the dawn – so that’s
the best time to steal your neighbor’s
newspaper.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his
shoes - that way you’re a mile away-and you
have the shoes.
Check out next month’s issue of
STAY FIT for more healthy aging tips.
See you in fitness class!
Kathy